We believe that sick kids need to express their feelings, and to heal emotionally as well as physically. That is why we created the Digging Deep Project—to empower children and teens facing serious health challenges to overcome the emotional burden of their illness or disability by helping them access their own inner strength to live with their health challenges.

Every young person working through significant health challenges has a story to tell.

Storytelling is a way to recover the voice that illness, diagnosis, and treatment have taken away.

When Marsha was diagnosed with breast cancer, she relied on something she learned in teaching white water rafting years earlier: Don’t fight the current, and if you capsize, relax on your back and enjoy the ride.

If, as the song says, ‘It’s the most wonderful time of the year,’ why am I feeling so much stress? Multiply this all by about a million if you’re dealing with illness, disability or mental health challenges.

After my worst day of chemotherapy, a letter arrived with a heartfelt note from all of my college friends, telling me that they missed me and that they had enclosed money to treat me to a spa day. Immediately, I broke down crying.

Knowing you is what your family and friends will remember – not the internet-assisted electric car set or the new set of golf clubs, but the emotion of the stories you tell about the events that have shaped you as a person.

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Resonance House, LLC, dba the Digging Deep Project, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Through contributions, Silicon Valley Community Foundation strives to make the products of the Digging Deep Project widely available to every young person who needs them.